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Understanding Windows implicit groups

Understanding Windows implicit groups

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Understanding Windows implicit groups

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- [Voiceover] Hello, and welcome back to another addition to Building Your Technology Skills. My name is Martin Guidry. And this week we're going to talk about the Windows Implicit Groups. So Windows Implicit Groups are sometimes called Special identities. These are groups that cannot be deleted or edited. We cannot control the membership of them, Windows does that for us automatically. It automatically puts in the appropriate users into these groups. And we can't change that. We can use these groups to set permissions, so when we want to set permissions on a file or folder, we can use the traditional groups that we create, or we can use these implicit groups. Now this is not the same thing as the Windows Default Groups. And I'd like to do a brief demo to demonstrate that. So here on a Windows 2012 server, I'm going to look at the local users and groups. And under groups, we see things like administrators, backup operators, guest, power users, these are all of the built-in groups that…

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